SLA367H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Avocation, Time Complexity
19 Apr 2020
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Strong irony / judgment falls away over time. Goes by name and patronymic: distanced himself from village life. Needs bed to sleep on, won"t sleep on floor anymore. Idea of independence, doesn"t want to be tied down. Trying to hold onto him is an impossible task on her part. Mysterious appeal that he has to community (and narrator) Sealed her fate that he sees her going there. She misses train b/c she is waiting for him to return from chasing bird. Train is opposite of bird --> fate, more concrete, objective, predictable. Time as cyclical in nature vs linear time inhabited by agafya and her husband. Nanny functions as conduit with father and son. Finds it amusing that he lacks tools to relate to his own son. Tells story about tsar and son dies from smoking. Son finally gets scared and promises to quit. Morality and truth should be presented in their natural form.
